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A "Short Club" in American 5-Card Standard bridge (and there may be other standards as well) is an opening bid which could show a hand holding as few as only 2 Clubs. It is used for an opening-point hand which does not have a five-card major, nor a 1NT point-count and distribution. The classic responses are: If played as a forcing bid (i.e., you cannot pass), with less than 6 pts, bid 1D. If not forcing with 0-5, pass. 6-9 points: Bid a four+-card major, or without a 4-card major, bid five-card diamond on the one-level (if not playing forcing), raise to 2 Clubs if holding 5+clubs or 1NT if balanced with 3+clubs and no four-card major. 10+ points: Bid a four+-card major, or without a 4-card major, bid a five-card diamond (at 1 or 2 level with interferring bid) or 2NT if balanced with 3+clubs and no four-card major. Most play "better of the minors" or "convenient minor" where, without a 5-card major, if 1 Club, is opened, it would never be as short as two: either the other minor (diamonds) will have three or more cards and/or you would have a five-card major which would be opened instead.

The four players at a bridge table are generally referred to by compass directions: clockwise around the table, they are North, East, South, and West. They do not need to be sitting in those actual directions; this is just a naming convention. North and South are partners, as are East and West.

Bridge is a card game. It's proper name is Contract Bridge.

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The entire deck is dealt out for each hand of bridge. The maximum number of different hands that can be dealt is 52 x 51x 50 x 49 x 48 x 47 x 46 x 45 x 44 x 43 x 42 x 41 x 40. This equals

3,954,242,643,911,240,000,000 possible different deals.

or

three-sextillion, nine-hundred-fifty-four-quintillion, two-hundred-forty-two-quadrillion, six-hundred-forty-three-trillion,nine-hundred-eleven-billion, two-hundred-forty-million possible bridge hands. (U.S and modern British)

or

three-thousand-nine-hundred-fifty-four-trillion, two-hundred-forty-two-thousand-six-hundred-forty-three-billion, nine-hundred-eleven-thousand-two-hundred-forty-million possible bridge hands. (Continental Europe and/or Traditional British)

Quite a few possible hands.

A bridge hand with no high cards in it is called a Yarborough hand, named after the 2nd Earl of Yarborough.

In the card game of bridge, an unblock is called an unblock.

In Bridge, an ace is high and then comes a king, queen, jack, 10, 9, etc. There are four people at the table. Each 4-card trick consists of each person playing 1 card.

Normally, a person tries to take all the tricks he can in his own hand. However, there may be times that a defender realizes his partner has certain cards that will enable her to win more tricks if he throws away a high card.

So when the opponent plays an Ace, he plays his king. This means he will lose his king and not take a trick with it. However, he believes his partner has the queen, jack, and ten. So by getting rid of his king, he unblocks the suit for his partner. His partner takes three tricks.

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minor suits

There are several bidding systems. In America the most widely used is SAYC - Standard American Yellow Card. In the UK and other Commonwealth Countries the main system is Acol. Acol is named after the road in London where it was first used by the group that devised it.

What is trump in the tarbish game? This is the question you have to ask yourself first of all. It is my understanding that for example if diamonds is trump in tarbish and the ace of diamonds is laid and then the ace of hearts then is played that trump triumphs! Hence the name trump cards (because it triumphs over everything else)

No the Ace of Hearts doesn't beat the Ace of trump. The lowest trump beast anything non-trump. So 6 of trumps beats Ace of anything non-trump. Also note that both the Jack and 9 of trump are higher than the Ace of trump, Jack being highest. The exact order of cards, as well as rules can be found here: http://tarbish.com/books/game-tarbish/points-and-scoring

The lowest value suit is clubs. In bridge, the suits are divided into two groups: major suits (spades and hearts) and minor suits (diamonds and clubs). So, the result of ranking the suits in order of highest to lowest would be spades, hearts, diamonds, and then clubs.

Four players are necessary for a game of bridge, but after the bidding only three actually play.

The players sitting opposite each other are partners. After the bidding, only one of the partners who won the contract gets to play. The other is the 'dummy' and lays his cards face up on the table. The 'declarer' plays his own hand and the dummy's hand, too.

Bridge uses a standard deck of 52 cards -- four suits (clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades) of 13 cards each. The four players are each dealt 13 cards.

Whist is a game similar to bridge.

Whist, which was popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, was the precursor to bridge. It morphed into auction bridge, which was replaced by contract bridge in 1925.

Spades and euchre also have similarities to bridge because they're played with trump suits and the players specify a number of tricks to be taken.

There are also some simplified versions of bridge that some find are a helpful step in learning to play "real" bridge. They include Mini-bridge, Honeymoon Bridge (a two-handed game), and a relatively new box game called aBridgeD.

Proper etiquette for a standard cut is for the player to the dealer's right to remove a contiguous pile of six or more cards and place it closer to the person cutting the cards than the original pile. The dealer then places the pile closest to him on top of the cut pile. Placing the cut cards toward the person cutting the cards ensures that the cards are placed in the proper order if the dealer did not see the cut. (From Wikipedia) The above answer only applies to private or home games, in a casino only the dealer cuts the cards.

When discussing table-top pen and paper RPGs, far and away the most popular roleplaying game of all time is Dungeons and Dragons. Though controversial by critics and fans of RPGs alike, it is simple fact that Dungeons and Dragons has captured the lion's share of the RPG market since it's inception in the mid-seventies and continues to do so with D&D 4E today. Following Dungeons and Dragons, the question becomes a bit trickier. Many RPGs have gained and lost popularity over the ensuing decades since the creation of "the hobby". The most popular (i.e. "Best Selling") Pen and Paper RPGs following D&D are probably Rifts, Vampire the Masquerade, Shadowrun and GURPS, though exact figures are difficult to track down. Personal Computer RPGs, however, have been completely dominated by the MMORPG since their arrival on the PC gaming scene, outstripping their predecessor single-player RPGs like Ultima 7 and Eye of the Beholder by millions of copies. The current holder of the Most Popular title is World of Warcraft with over 9 million subscribers worldwide. It's closest competitor without massively multiplayer capability is Diablo II with 4 million copies sold. Console RPGs, by comparison, have been mostly dominated by Japanese companies. Final Fantasy VII stands at the top of the console RPG market with almost 10 million copies sold.

A card used in the playing of a game of "bridge".

Charles Goren popularised the game and was a household name long ago.

Many famous people play bridge: Bill Gates (co-foudner of Microsoft), Thom Yorke (Radiohead singer), Omar Shariff (movie star), and so on.

When evaluating your bridge hand, you count three points for a king.

The usual system counts one point for the jack, 2 for the queen, 3 for the king and 4 for an ace.